71st OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2001 Regular Session
 
 
                            Enrolled
 
                 Senate Concurrent Resolution 2
 
Sponsored by Senator TROW; Senators L BEYER, BROWN, BURDICK,
  CARTER, CASTILLO, CORCORAN, COURTNEY, DECKERT, DERFLER, DUKES,
  DUNCAN, FISHER, GEORGE, GORDLY, HARTUNG, MESSERLE, METSGER,
  MILLER, MINNIS, SHIELDS, STARR, YIH, Representatives ACKERMAN,
  BACKLUND, BARNHART, BECK, BOWMAN, BROWN, BUTLER, CLOSE, DEVLIN,
  GARDNER, GARRARD, HILL, HOPSON, KAFOURY, KING, KNOPP, KRIEGER,
  KROPF, LEONARD, LOWE, MARCH, MERKLEY, MONNES ANDERSON, NELSON,
  NOLAN, PATRIDGE, RINGO, ROSENBAUM, SIMMONS, TOMEI, VERGER, V
  WALKER, WESTLUND, WINTERS, WIRTH, WITT
 
 
  Whereas former member of the Oregon House of Representatives
and the United States Senate Maurine Brown Neuberger died
February 22, 2000, at 94 years of age; and
  Whereas Maurine Brown Neuberger and her husband, Richard L.
Neuberger, were the first married couple to serve in a state
legislature at the same time; and
  Whereas Maurine Brown Neuberger was the third woman elected to
the United States Senate and the only one to serve in that
legislative body from Oregon; and
  Whereas Maurine Brown Neuberger challenged social conventions
and helped pave the way for women to enter public life; and
  Whereas Maurine Brown Neuberger was a champion of consumer
protection, had a flair for dramatizing causes and was an early
opponent of the tobacco industry; and
  Whereas Maurine Brown Neuberger was known for her toughness,
tenderness and good humor; and
  Whereas Maurine Brown Neuberger was active in politics until
the end of her life; and
  Whereas in the words of Oregon's senior United States Senator,
Maurine Brown Neuberger was the 'model of Oregon's good citizen';
now, therefore,
 
Be It Resolved by the Legislative Assembly of the State of
  Oregon:
 
  That we, the members of the Seventy-first Legislative Assembly,
mourn the passing of former state Representative and United
States Senator Maurine Brown Neuberger, extend our condolences to
her family and express our sincere appreciation for a woman who
worked tirelessly, crossing political and ideological boundaries,
for the people of her community and state; and be it further
  Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be presented to our
late colleague's nieces, Kate Marquez, Molly Goodsell and Ann
Goodsell, as an expression of the esteem in which we hold the
memory of the Honorable Maurine Brown Neuberger.
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                                 Adopted by Senate February 22,
                                              2001
 
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                                       Secretary of Senate
 
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                                       President of Senate
 
 
                                 Adopted by House March 21, 2001
 
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                                        Speaker of House
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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